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I'm not in line for any of these frames, but have been following the story on a weekly basis since inception. Those latest pics are the bomb. You post it all up, then tell everyone they have to wait 2 weeks. Anyone else need a cold shower?

By the way, is there a new way to feed the LPR? It looks like you have the microline connected to Mr. Coffee. That is gonna get expensive if the LPR decides it would rather have Starbucks.

I am sitting in my living room with my fiancee and my daughter right now,.. because its 7:30am on Saturday and its been a rough night

My daughter has a nice case of post nasal drip,.. and what ever she has now,... I have plus a cough (slight though). My fiancee is getting the start of what we have,....

I tell you this so you know that I have not touched the Ripper frame,... I just didnt have time this week.

I have the valve installed and I found my ASA and LPRs I will be using (some how the LPRs went up and walked away last week)

There is a smaaaaaaal problem with the setup (Ryan,.. dont worry!) If you all look at the pictures of the rail, you will notice that it is rather short and indeed will not compliment the ASA that Ryan milled for the Ripper.

I call this to your attention because I want to know how YOU guys would like to see the demo video footage.

Your choices are:
A) Mill the hole in the rail more forward to allow the use of the ASA that compliments the Ripper frame,... placing the LPR in the front as originaly designed.

B) Place the LPR in ANY location that will work for you,... as long as the frame performs 100% as designed.

I will tell you that option A is not going to be a long waited thing. I have ALL the tools to modify the rail,.... and its just a matter of what you would like to see done. Option B IMHO would look "less appealing" in the video.

I give you the option because my rail I was intent on using in the pictures was milled for eyes. So it gave me the chance to complete the marker 100% as shown in Ryans original video. Can I change the rail out? Yes,... Im just looking for some input here.

I am sitting in my living room with my fiancee and my daughter right now,.. because its 7:30am on Saturday and its been a rough night

My daughter has a nice case of post nasal drip,.. and what ever she has now,... I have plus a cough (slight though). My fiancee is getting the start of what we have,....

I tell you this so you know that I have not touched the Ripper frame,... I just didnt have time this week.

I have the valve installed and I found my ASA and LPRs I will be using (some how the LPRs went up and walked away last week)

There is a smaaaaaaal problem with the setup (Ryan,.. dont worry!) If you all look at the pictures of the rail, you will notice that it is rather short and indeed will not compliment the ASA that Ryan milled for the Ripper.

I call this to your attention because I want to know how YOU guys would like to see the demo video footage.

Your choices are:
A) Mill the hole in the rail more forward to allow the use of the ASA that compliments the Ripper frame,... placing the LPR in the front as originaly designed.

B) Place the LPR in ANY location that will work for you,... as long as the frame performs 100% as designed.

I will tell you that option A is not going to be a long waited thing. I have ALL the tools to modify the rail,.... and its just a matter of what you would like to see done. Option B IMHO would look "less appealing" in the video.

I give you the option because my rail I was intent on using in the pictures was milled for eyes. So it gave me the chance to complete the marker 100% as shown in Ryans original video. Can I change the rail out? Yes,... Im just looking for some input here.

~ P8nt

Do whatever is best for the setup that you will be keeping yourself. The pneumatic system works just fine, and has been proven before, it's only the new electronics that are up in the air.

You do it however you'd like to leave it. No sense in doing a bunch of work you'll just have to redo later.

As for the rest, don't worry about it too much, you've still made more progress in the last month or two than has been made in the last year and a half, so don't sweat a delay, we all knew it would happen eventually.

Get your family and yourself well again, and come back to this when you're all back up to speed.

Christmas is on the way anyhow, and I was going to insist that you not work over the holidays anyway. I've done that for the last ten years, it sucks, and I don't have a family.

I am going to go on vacation from this project till after the New Years.

I know you guys have been waiting and waiting on me to produce SOMETHING,.....

Well here is the fruits of today's labor

That was 18bps,.. in semi auto,.. with some stupid cheater settings to make it fire pretty fast

I used a E-Micro 2000 Valve with an R/T on/off assembly installed (no ULT)

I don't know what the input pressure was from the LPR,.. I just turned it up until it was firing steady. I need to make an in line pressure gauge to test the pressure in the finished product. As you can also see,... I mounted the LPR to the drop rather than screw with the rail milling and mounting the ASA (it was a quick way to test the electronics)

I need to fine tune the settings some more. However at this point I am going to say publicly:

"Ryan,... Im ready to make all the electronics now "

I hope you guys have a great holiday if I dont get back on here in the next week or so.
If I have time,.. I may clean up the install and solder some harnesses together (I really need a new solder gun at some point,.. perfect excuse to get one! )

When you're self employed, your only choice is to keep moving, even if that means just treading water.

If you don't at least do that, you drown.

Personal Updates:

1) It's snowing, and colder than a ***** outside. Global Warming my hairy white buttocks. I hope the Goracle freezes to death in Copenhagen.
2) Our new CNC Plasma cutting machine is setting in the shop now, and appears to be getting along with all the rest of the equipment just fine.
3) There's a lot of crap to do to install a new machine, and I seem to forget this fact between installations. Run new electrical wire, mount boxes, hang conduit, run new air lines, drive new ground rods, build new stands, carts, tables, and on and on and on.
4) We've been at it all week, and we're still several days away from the thing actually moving under its own power.
5) I'm glad to finally be doing something productive again.

If anyone needs any fabrication or complex burning work done in the new year, look me up, I'll be able to help you.

When you're self employed, your only choice is to keep moving, even if that means just treading water.

If you don't at least do that, you drown.

Personal Updates:

1) It's snowing, and colder than a ***** outside. Global Warming my hairy white buttocks. I hope the Goracle freezes to death in Copenhagen.
2) Our new CNC Plasma cutting machine is setting in the shop now, and appears to be getting along with all the rest of the equipment just fine.
3) There's a lot of crap to do to install a new machine, and I seem to forget this fact between installations. Run new electrical wire, mount boxes, hang conduit, run new air lines, drive new ground rods, build new stands, carts, tables, and on and on and on.
4) We've been at it all week, and we're still several days away from the thing actually moving under its own power.
5) I'm glad to finally be doing something productive again.

If anyone needs any fabrication or complex burning work done in the new year, look me up, I'll be able to help you.

Pics of new machine , CNC Plasma you could cut anything into just about anything

Pics of new machine , CNC Plasma you could cut anything into just about anything

Here it is as it sets:

We've run the power down to it, but still have to make up the patch cables to get from the wall to the machine itself.

Should get the air lines run on Monday or Tuesday of next week.

Then we gotta build a cart for the air dryer/plasma generator, and another cart for the computer to live on, then we gotta get some slats sheared up and installed, and we gotta buy some sheet to cut, THEN we can make some test cuts.